Come on people we are forgetting Guns N' Roses! Now THEY were a kickass band.

Also we got Aerosmith, Crosby Stills and Nash, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Nirvana, Soundgarden, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, The Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, NOFX, the Offspring, Kiss, The Dropkick Murphys, the Foo Fighters, Van Halen, Motley Crue, Stone Temple Pilots, blink-182, Sum 41, and let's not forget all of the American blues artists from which rock and roll stemmed. Ol Chuck Berry, the grandfather of rock and roll